Because cops can’t tell that you are drunk at 0.08 without a breathalyzer. It doesn’t effect your driving enough to be able to tell. At 0.1, cops find drunks by driving their beats and pulling over people weaving around and blowing stop signs like a drunk. People at 0.08 don’t do those things, so you can’t catch them that way.

So, what did the cops do? They start setting up roadblocks. They take tons of cops off the street, and put them all in one place. That one place, BTW, is one that is ridiculously easy to see ahead of time and avoid. So, they aren’t getting any real drunks at the road block, and they aren’t out on the street looking for the drunks. (The point of a roadblock is to let them come to you.) And even then, they are screwing up traffic for everyone else (who is going to get rear ended if a drunk does show up to the roadblock.)

Now, the NTSB wants to arrest people who are impossible to detect without a still-questionable technology in a quest to try to create more statistics based crimes.

If you’d like to protect your daughter, raise her in such a way that she can protect herself. Give her the tools to decipher a dangerous situation. Teach her the language of consent and how to exit a situation that makes her uncomfortable. Help her be confident about her decisions, and show her how to make good choices about the people she spends time with. Take the time and be involved in her life. Protect your son in the same ways. And, for goodness sake, if you have good reason to distrust their judgement, make sure their activities are safe and monitored.

This is rape culture, straight up.

What she is really saying is that when her son coerces and cajoles a girl into having sex with him when she really doesn’t want to, it’s the girl’s fault, and that she should “make good choices” instead of being raped. Because, after all, her son is a member of the patriarchy, and he should be allowed to have sex with any girl he wants, whether she wants it or not. And if she has her father create a safe space for her to do that in, that some how injures her son’s privilege to invade any vagina he wants.

People who are supporting Trump aren’t supporting him so much because we love him and think he will do a great job. We are supporting him because we hate you and know that you will do a shitty job. At worst, Trump will bumble around in office and make a spectacle of himself. At your best you bankrupt the party’s political capital and give our enemies everything they want.

This is the part that really gets my goat:

Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a longtime Boehner ally in the Republican leadership, said those clamoring for another shutdown this week or later this year would jeopardize the party’s chances at the big prize — winning the presidency in 2016.

“We have the very same people who led us to disaster in 2013 telling us to do the same thing,” Cole said Monday on MSNBC. “Government shutdowns never work.”

That’s what the GOPe considers disaster. And you know why? Because they weren’t establishment candidates being elected to those positions. Because they didn’t get drones that would sit by and vote for their “compromises” with the Democrats (remember, that means “we get nothing that we want, but they don’t get everything that they want, so ‘compromise'”) they consider it a disaster.

Boehner broke the Hastert Rule. Boehner broke the Boehner Rule. Boehner handed the Democrats everything they asked for, and signaled from the start that they would continue getting anything they wanted if they just put a little pressure on him.

The GOPe has made it very clear that they consider Republican voters their enemy. It is time we make it clear that this runs both ways.

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